ID: 1833 Maternity Circle Facilitator
Family Action Perinatal Support Service
Salary: £25,221 – £27,780 FTE per annum – (Pro-rata for part time hours £15,132 - £16,668)
Location: Bradford
Hours: 22.2 hours per week – (Part-time, equivalent to 3 days)
We would consider between 16.8 and 22.2 hours per week
We offer flexible working arrangements - please see below for more details.
Contract: Temporary until end of March 2027, subject to funding. Post will be made permanent as soon as further funding is in place, we expect to find out about funding by September.
Family Action & the Role’s Impact:
At Family Action we support people through change, challenge or crisis. It’s what we’ve done for over 150 years. We protect children, support young people and adults and offer direct, practical help to families and communities.
Are you passionate about supporting women, babies, and families in the first 1001 days (pregnancy up to age 2)? Are you organised, proactive, adaptable, and skilled in engaging families and professionals? Do you have experience of providing advice and signposting and / or running group sessions?
Family Action Perinatal Support Service has been running two successful Maternity Circles for more than 2 years. We have an established and effective model in place, families who attend enjoy the sessions and content, and are able to access healthcare, support, advice and activities. The Circles live up to our aim to ‘Open the Door to Access More!’. We are looking for an enthusiastic and skilled Maternity Circle Facilitator to continue this delivery.
Main Responsibilities:
• Facilitating the 2 weekly Maternity Circle sessions in 2 community venues, including setting up provision and providing content, and organising and planning for future sessions.
• Being the friendly face and welcoming presence in the Circle sessions, building rapport with families who attend, and aiming to meet their needs.
• Collecting and recording data, using reflective logs, and creating quarterly case studies.
• Consulting with families as to what they want from the Circles, in order to tailor content and future sessions to meet those needs.
• Liaising with professionals and community workers across the maternity system and the local area, in order to plan for content delivery, and to effectively signpost or refer on to other services as needed.
Main Requirements (for details check the job description and person specification):
• Personal experience of pregnancy, childbirth, and early parenting, or of having supported other parents in the first 1001 days of baby’s life.
• Experience of running groups or sessions, and / or of supporting families and communities.
• Excellent organisational skills and the ability work autonomously, including forward planning for future Circle sessions.
• Good networking and engagement skills, able to both be friendly and welcoming in leading Circle sessions, and to build connections with professionals and community workers to benefit the Circle and the attendees.
• Appointments are subject to Family Action receiving a satisfactory disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Benefits:
- an annual paid leave entitlement that commences at 25 working days, rising each April by one day, subject to a maximum of 30 working days plus bank holidays / of 30 working days plus bank holidays (pro-rata if part-time)
- up to 6% matched-pension contributions
- enhanced paid sick leave and paid family leave provisions
- eye care and winter flu jabs vouchers
- cycle to work scheme
- investing in your professional development with ongoing quality training and career development opportunities
We are forward looking, ambitious and committed to continuous improvement. We are a people focused, can-do organisation, which strives for excellence in all we do and operates with mutual respect.
To Apply:
• Click the “Apply Now” link below and fill out our digital application form
• Closing Date: Sunday 26th July at 23.59
Interviews – in person Wednesday 12th August
For direct queries or if you would like to discuss any aspect of the selection process or flexible working requests, please email: katie.james@family-action.org.uk
Our commitment to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion:
We are committed to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion in all that we do and welcome applications from all sections of the community / particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates and candidates with disabilities because we are committed to increasing the representation of these groups at Family Action. We know that greater diversity will lead to even greater results for families and children and strive for our workforce to be truly representative of the diverse communities we support.
All candidates with a disability are welcome to apply under the Disability Confident Scheme and request priority consideration for an interview, provided they meet the essential criteria for the role.
To help remove financial barriers to working with us, we will reimburse travel costs if you are invited to attend an interview in person.
*Ordinarily Family Action appoints new starters at the starting point of the salary scale (with subsequent annual pay progression), unless you have experience that would justify appointment further up the salary scale or there are any other exceptional reasons.
